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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, FEB 10, 2007 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Speyer,
Germany, presented by Bishop Anton Schlembach, upon having reached the age
limit.

- Appointed Bishop Dionisio Guillermo Garcia Ibanez of Santisimo Salvador de
Bayamo y Manzanillo, Cuba, as metropolitan archbishop of Santiago de Cuba (area
6,043, population 1,017,785, Catholics 242,378, priests 20, permanent deacons
3, religious 53), Cuba. The archbishop-elect was born in Guantanamo, Cuba in
1945, he was ordained a priest in 1985, and consecrated a bishop in 1996. He
succeeds Archbishop Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu, whose resignation from the
pastoral care of the same archdiocese, the Holy Father accepted, upon having
reached the age limit.

- Elevated the apostolic prefecture of Nepal (area 147,181, population
23,700,000, Catholics 6,681, priests 51, religious 112), Nepal to the rank of
apostolic vicariate, with the same name and territorial boundaries. He
appointed Fr. Anthony Francis Sharma S.J., apostolic prefect of Nepal, as the
first apostolic vicar of the new apostolic vicariate, at the same time
elevating him to the dignity of bishop. The bishop-elect was born in Kathmandu,
Nepal in 1937 and ordained a priest in 1968.

- Confirmed the election, carried out by the Synod of Bishops of the Syro-
Malabar Church, meeting on February 8, 2007, of Archbishop Issac Cleemis
Thottunkal of Tiruvalla, India as major archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-
Malankars (area 8,684, population 8,657,000, Catholics 270,000, priests 300,
religious 1,056), India.
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